Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Verge launched on the 1st of November 2011 with four million unique visitors and twenty million pageviews. Joshua Topolsky served as the founding editor until mid-2014 when Nilay Patel took over his role.
Nine staff members including Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Justin Glow, Dan Chilton, Paul Miller, Ross Miller, Joanna Stern, and Chris Ziegler left AOL to start The Verge in early April 2011. They sought independence from their parent company after years of working there.
Vox Media used its proprietary Chorus system from the site's inception until the 28th of January 2025. On that date, The Verge switched to WordPress for all publishing operations.
The inaugural episode of The Vergecast aired on the 4th of November 2011 and the site won Best Podcast awards at the Webby Awards for 2012 recognizing their audio output quality. Decoder with Nilay Patel started on the 8th of August 2015 and now releases two episodes per week since the 8th of February 2024.
December 2024 marked when The Verge began paying walling some content behind a subscription service offering premium reports and newsletters. Initial rates were set at seven dollars per month or fifty dollars annually according to a blog post by Patel.